hydro shield?

[Capt.Nate]

Mine also has 2, 45 gallon tanks midship that stay full.

I played around with my motor trim today and it really changes the way it turns along with efficiency. Had it trimmed up higher than typical and seemed to free up the wheel more and level out the turns. I'll fiddle with it more when the winds die down.

[McGillicuddy]

Originally Posted by badhabit

yes it has trim tabs and you have to use them every few seconds and that gets old running 70 miles to the canyon. I am fine with the way it leans in a big turn but I think it should be able to run in a straight line without falling over on its side. we love the boat we just want to get this figured out. I am not saying its not the operator but I have ran boats offshore for 30 years and this is a first for me.

Does it lean to both sides with same ferocity, or primarily to one side? Does it lean with with tabs neutral/up and even? are tabs perfectly aligned? it takes but a smidgen of tab to change the running attitude of your hull. How high is the motor? vertical cg and lack of rudder...

is motor perfectly centered?
Does drive leg have torque tab? slightest bit off center can cause the bow to lean...

Fuel tanks flat bottom or v? is fuel sloshing side to side, a'la the mitchman effect...

Finally, your single motor is very light for a 25. Considering most folks are putting too much weight aft on their repowers, this is going to sound odd, but I think you may actually be running a little light on the stern. Some of these rigs were dressed with a pair of chevy 250 inlines. The chevy ballast concerns are quite valid, me thinks...

Might consider setting 5 or 600lbs of sandbags centered in front of the motor and see if see runs a little more true to help define the problem.

[badhabit]

my son and I took it striper fishing yesterday. with the tabs all the way down it still seems like the bow rides high. I had my son witch is 270lbs get in the cuddy. that did help the ride some but I feel like it needs more. we were full of fuel 120gal in the center and 40gal in the back. do you guys with the safaris ride bow high at all?

[cdavisdb]

Mine likes weight in the bow,smoother slightly faster ride, but I wouldn't say it rides bow high. Normally rides flatter than most boats I've owned. usually don't use significant tabs. I tend to use more tabs late in a long trip when the water supply stored far forward is exhausted. Really notice a heavy passenger moving forward when the bow is light. When I'm loaded heavy, I've got somewhere around 300 lbs aft of the transum, between kicker, jerry cans of fuel, platform and stored dive gear plus about 200 lbs of water weight and grocerys as far forward as I can get them. . Light load most of that is gone, but there is still 200 lbs aft of the transum. That really should not be all that different from the weight distribution with full fuel of your rig. I'm thinking there is some connection between your boats tendency to lean all the time and the bow up thing. Not sure what that could be, but neither match my experiance. Motor trim, motor height, lifting prop, trim tab, something weird? How slow will yours stay on a plain? It should go down to around 13 mph, tabs and trim down.

[badhabit]

thanks for the reply. the bow rides higher on this boat than any I owned besides my 34 hatteras. the boat was able to make small turns without falling over to bad with my son up front so we are thinking about putting 400lbs up front, we just hate putting so much weight on the boat. even with the bow a little higher than I think it should be we walked away from a 25 grady white in 2 to 3 foot chop the other day.

[cdavisdb]

The ride of the 25, going fast in slop is just hard to believe. A Grady trying to keep up would be way out of its class.

There is something not right about how your boat is set up. I know what you mean about smaller Hatterases tendency to point their bow at the sky. Your 25 definitely should not do that, ever, ten times more so when it loaded like you described. If something was forcing the bow too high, you would be running on a small portion of a very sharp hull, far back toward the stern. That would make it unstable and might well require constant attention to the tabs. it would probably also mean that the hull would fall off a plane at a relatively high speed, something like 17 knots. Can you post some pics of the stern of the boat, showing exactly how the motor is mounted, normal engine trim for running, prop used, tab position, etc? Pics of the boat running?

The boat should track like it is on rails, even when it is pretty rough. Does it?

[gofastsandman]

Originally Posted by cdavisdb

The ride of the 25, going fast in slop is just hard to believe. A Grady trying to keep up would be way out of its class.

There is something not right about how your boat is set up. I know what you mean about smaller Hatterases tendency to point their bow at the sky. Your 25 definitely should not do that, ever, ten times more so when it loaded like you described. If something was forcing the bow too high, you would be running on a small portion of a very sharp hull, far back toward the stern. That would make it unstable and might well require constant attention to the tabs. it would probably also mean that the hull would fall off a plane at a relatively high speed, something like 17 knots. Can you post some pics of the stern of the boat, showing exactly how the motor is mounted, normal engine trim for running, prop used, tab position, etc? Pics of the boat running?

The boat should track like it is on rails, even when it is pretty rough. Does it?

Troll?

[badhabit]

I will take some pictures within the next few days and the next time we take it fishing I will try to take a video of it running. in anything but glass conditions we run with the tabs all the way down. I would not say the boat ran on rails but when we hit a big wave and I am sure it is going to slam it just sits back down nice and soft.

[badhabit]

gofast, I am not a troll if that is what you are saying. we found this boat this summer because some one on c s c posted that one was for sale on ct craigs list.

[gofastsandman]

Do you have previous owners contact info?